New Addition to the Family

For Holly's birthday the boys decided she needed a bunny. We got her a Holland Lop Mix. After several days debate she named it Amelia, since the bunny's ears look like wings when she hops around. But the boys call her Chopper.

In the picture, the boys are watching a Pokemon episode. They thought Amelia would enjoy it too so they let her join them on the futon.

Selling in the Rain

Four weeks ago we decided to have a garage sale to help Joe raise money for his People to People trip. Three other families with kids going joined us. Of course it rained. We had great weather Friday, today is a beautiful day, and the rest of the week looks great too. That's how it goes.

Thankfully, our neighbor Lorena let us invade her half of the driveway, and then her yard under the tree as we tried to move things out from under the rain. The kids had hoped to sell snow cones and popcorn, but didn't get enough people coming through.

We still had a good time with the families and we raised about $120 for Joe's trip. The next project is figuring out some craft-ish things to sell at holiday bazaar in November. If you have easy, quick, cheap ideas that will sell like crazy, let us know.

First Day of School

Joe started sixth grade at his new school yesterday, Sellwood Middle School. Today he gets his own locker so he's pretty excited about that. He found a couple buddies from his old school to have lunch with and learned pizza is served every day so he thinks that sounds pretty good.

Tim is in third grade with Ms. Davis, the teacher he's been hoping for since Joe had her. His favorite part of the day was having three recesses. He's hoping for that again today but figures it's a long shot.